Today you’ll learn how to improve your diabetes health while we speak with Dr. Cyrus Khambatta.
Dr. Cyrus Khambatta is the co-author of The New York Times bestseller Mastering Diabetes. He co-created the Mastering Diabetes Method to reverse insulin resistance in all forms of diabetes, and has helped more than 10,000 people improve their metabolic health using low-fat, plant-based, whole-food nutrition, intermittent fasting, and exercise.
Episode Summary:
- You can lower your insulin use and get better blood glucose levels with a high carbohydrate diet vs. a low carb diet like many doctors recommend.
- You can reverse insulin resistance and feel the best you’ve ever felt by changing your diet.
- We need to understand all the different kinds of carbs and how they impact glucose levels and insulin. We shouldn’t fear carbs.
- You can eat a nutrient-rich diet filled with healthy carbs. Apples, bananas, oranges, and other fruit is fine and recommended.
- Both type 1 and 2 diabetes can be managed by the foods we eat. You can reverse your medication dependence with type 2 diabetes, when you change your diet early.
Here’s a minute by minute of Dr. Cyrus Khambatta | How to Improve Your Diabetes Health Once And For All:
0:00 Who is Dr. Cyrus Khambatta
8:57 How Dr. Cyrus Khambatta treated his diabetes
10:35 Lowering insulin usage 42% in 1-week
13:28 Understanding insulin resistance
15:53 How to help diabetic eating low carbs
19:45 Mastering Diabetes Book Summary
21:27 Why Personalized Coaching vs. Book
23:29 6-Week Blood Sugar Transformation Challenge
24:40 Type 1 diabetes vs type 2
29:15 Curing Type 2 Diabetes
32:50 Type 2 Diabetes discontinuing insulin
36:23 Fasting and Diabetes
40:08 Endocrinologist problem
43:20 Dr. Cyrus Khambatta Diet
46:00 Dr. Monica Aggarwal Diet
Who Is Dr. Cyrus Khambatta:
Cyrus Khambatta, PhD earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 2003, then earned a PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 2012. He is the co-author of many peer-reviewed scientific publications.
He is the co-founder of Mastering Diabetes and Amla Green, and is an internationally recognized nutrition and fitness coach who has been living with type 1 diabetes since 2002.
He co-created the Mastering Diabetes Method to reverse insulin resistance in all forms of diabetes, and has helped more than 10,000 people improve their metabolic health using low-fat, plant-based, whole-food nutrition, intermittent fasting, and exercise.
He is the co-host of the annual Mastering Diabetes Online Summit, a featured speaker at the Plant-Based Nutrition and Healthcare Conference (PBNHC), the American College of Lifestyle Medicine Conference (ACLM), Plant Stock, the Torrance Memorial Medical Center, and has been featured on NPR, KQED, Forks Over Knives, Healthline, Fast Company, Diet Fiction, and the wildly popular podcasts Plant Proof and Nutrition Rounds. He is a co-author of the upcoming book Mastering Diabetes with Robby Barbaro, MPH.
Learn more about Dr. Cyrus Khambatta: https://www.masteringdiabetes.org/
